The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-11-24

e HOW manV pounds nave you selected
or caused to be constructed, and how
many pound masters have you appointed
during 1887? None.
f. How many brands or marks of neat
cattle have you recorded or certified dur
ing 1897? Eleven.
5. How many wrecks have been disposed
of under your supervision during 1887?
None
6. How many Hawaiian seamen have
been shipped under your supervision dur
ing 1887 i'll accordance with sections 1874
5-6 of the Civil Code? Seven.
7. In how many instances and for how
many persons have you during 1887 tested
and certified weights ana measures? No
record has been kept.
8. How many minors have you bound
out as apprentices since January l, 1880.
and what are their names? None
8. How many oa!hs have you admins
tered under the law authorizing the Gov
ernor TO administer the oath, during the
past year, and il. any, was there any
special necessity or advantage of their
being administered by you as Governor?
None.
Respectfully submitted
JNO. .. DOMINIs.
The above answers are for the year 1887,
but have only held the office of Governor
of Oahu since August 5 1887.
JNo. 0. DoMINIs.
The report was laid on the table to be
translated
INTERNAL POLICE BILL.
Noble Smith presented the following
majority report:
Hon. S. @. Wilder, President legislative
Assembly-Sir: The special committee to
whom was referred IAN Act to provide
for and regulate the internal police of the
Kingdom" beg leave to present their re-
port: We are of opinion that the main
features of the bill, in giving the Attorney
General the superior control and super
vision of the police force of the Kingdom.
are good, butthat giving the ATTORNEY Gen
eral the unrestricted power to appoint and
remove the Marshal is unwise
The Marshal and Sheriffs have great
powers and duties, some of which are iu-
dicial. They are officers of the Court, as
well as subOrdinates of the Attorney Gen
eral, and the Courts have a large interest
form their duties.
And we recommend that the bill be
amended so as to require the approval of
the Supreme Court in the appointment
and removal OF the Marshal, and that
such Court approve the bonds of the Mar
shall and the Sherlffs, and the bonds be
filed in the office of the Clerk of the Su-
preme Court.
These amendments, as also a few others
of less Importance, are set forth in the
amended Act, which we submit herewith,
which we recommend be substituted for
the original bill.
w. o. SMITH,
G. n. wilcox,
J. MAGUIRE.
The report was laid on the table, to be
taken up and considered with the minority
report.
Minister Ashford read the minority re-
port, as follows
Hon. S. G. Wilder, President of the Leg
islative Assembly-Sir: A minority of
your select committee to whom was re-
ferred the bill. TO provide for and regulate
the internal police of the Kingdom, beg
leave tOrepOrt that said bill has had our con-
sideratiOn. Your committee approve the
general aim and scope of the bill, which is
in the direction and interest of securing
more efficient administration of the police
department of the Kingdom and making
the officers of that force more thoroughly
and directly responsible to the Cabinet of
fcer to whose department these matters
by law appertain.
Prior to 1868 the supervision of the in
ternal police force was by statute com
mitted to the Minister of the Interior, but
by Act Of May ID, 1868, this supervision
was transferred for reasons that satisfied
the Legislature, to the department of the
Attorney General. Your committee en-
dor5e the proposition contained in section
L OF the bill, that the Attorney General
shall retain this supervision; but to make
his authority in the premises more ex-
plicit than in the past, it has been thought
necessary to more clearly define, as is done
in this bill, the material relations to exist
betweenhim and the different officers of
force. Heretofore there has been no we'll
defined power in the Attorney General to
enforce in the administration of
police matters, such system as he might
think for the benefit OF the force or of the
public, nor any degree of authority at all
commensurate with his responsibility to
the peoples representatives for sucn adj
ministration. In short, his position seems
heretofore to have been, as concerns police
affairs, one of responsibility without au-
thority. These ANONYMOUS conditions
have, we understand been urged upon the
attention of successive Legislatures during
the present reign, but thus far without
beneficial effect.
We find that the greater portion of the |
bill now before US, except as regards the |
appointment and removal of police officers, |
is in effect the same as the law now in force, |
Nth cnrtatra uarhal or form IL annond- |